But anyway Pseudonymity as this absolute right, unlike anonymity, is just incoherent It's self-contradictory, it collapses as soon as you try to push it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
It's not the right to just erase everything untraceably and start over periodically, it's the right to demand some things be verifiable and trackable and other things *must not* To *control* what other people notice and remember about the persona you put into the world
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
It is impossible to execute long-term without the *active cooperation* of everyone involved To demand it as a right is to demand control over what other people notice and remember no one really has the right to demand
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
Like, people are wary of it because it's so obviously fucking abusable and so widely abused It's called "catfishing" these days, in its most extreme form, but it's as old as the Internet and has been pissing people off as long as the Internet's existed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
"This is my account for harassment and racist memes, and this is my account for being a serious political thinker, and this is my account for pretending to be a teenager so other teenagers in this fandom aren't uncomfortable around me"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sleeperjoebiden and
In a world where stepping a toe out of line with whatever ingroup you have could mean instant social isolation or death threats, being able to go between a few is often a necessity. -an account with a name more identifiable to who I am than my real, much more boring name.
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Replying to @GabrielObray @sleeperjoebiden and
In other words, you think you have this strong moral right to lie to your "ingroup" Yeah okay
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GabrielObray and
it's a bit more complicated than that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/case-pseudonyms … You're edging towards Zuck there
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Replying to @mssilverstein @kevinmarks and
Right? Like what does a "right" mean in this context No one forced Scott under oath to tell his wallet name to anyone at any point in this process If his pseudonymity were a *legal right* then I guess it would mean that, what, people who say his name should go to jail?
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There should be Centralized Internet Censorship Protocols that go around deleting everyone who posts his name anywhere? (Which is what Reddit actually implemented, hilariously, on their own site during the violentacrez controversy) How vigorously enforced is this right
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